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Happy New Year everyone! We do hope this year brings you peace and happiness even though we currently seem to be wading through rain and mud at every turn! It can’t last, honestly…….. So to cheer us up we thought we’d share a few more photos from the lovely event we were involved in back in the summer with Julia’s House in Corfe Mullen.

Children’s charity Julia’s House (dedicated to supporting children with life-limiting conditions) wanted to say thank you to their volunteers as part of National Volunteers Week by holding a vintage tea at their hospice at Corfe Mullen.

With more than 100 volunteers supporting the charity – taking on work from fundraising to van driving; working in the Julia’s House shops, providing admin work and giving support at the hospice itself – there’s a huge range and potential for volunteering activity that is vital to the charity.

The vintage tea was an opportunity for employees from Julia’s House to say thank you – serving tea and scones to volunteers and showing them the facilities and work that takes place at the Corfe Mullen hospice.

Follow the link HERE to see what Julia’s House had to say about the day and do enjoy the photos below – we just lurve that lion!!! And he didn’t eat too many cream cakes either!

Wallace & Gromit are calling on people across the UK by enjoying a cup of tea and a slice of cake at The Great British Tea Party from the 1st – 10th December to raise thousands of pounds for charity helping sick children in hospitals and hospices.

In the UK we get through a staggering 16.5 million cups of tea a day, that’s an average of three cups of tea each every day. We drink quite a lot of tea at Vintage Dorset – so we’re having our own tea party with friends and family in a pre-Christmas teatime treat! If you want to host a Wallace & Gromit tea party of your own – then we’re happy to offer you FREE BUNTING and free publicity on our Vintage Dorset calendar. Just contact us here to arrange.

Nick Park, creator of Wallace & Gromit and trustee of the Wallace & Gromit Children’s Foundation, says: “A quintessentially British tea party is just my cup of tea and a great way to help sick and terminally ill children in the UK.”

Since 2003 over 400,000 people have taken part in the Great British Tea party, helping children in over 25 children’s hospitals and hospices across the UK

The Fundraising event hopes to raise over £150,000 and is supported by Yorkshire Tea.

Across Scotland Music in HospitalsGlasgow The Royal Hospital for Sick Children
Robin House HospiceAberdeen The Royal Aberdeen Children’s HospitalEdinburgh The Royal Hospital for Sick ChildrenYorkhill Yorkhill Children’s Foundation

NORTHERN IRELAND

Belfast The Royal Belfast Hospital for sick Children, Antrim Area Hospital ArtsCare Group